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CC108: Myth & Religion in the Ancient City
Semester 1 | Credits: 5
This module provides an introduction to the study of Antiquity by focusing on the thought and creativity of the earliest knowable European peoples in the lands around the ancient Mediterranean. Lectures are divided into two streams: 'Greek Mythology and the Origins of Western Literature', and 'Introduction to Ancient Greek History'. These series of lectures run in parallel, offering complementary perspectives on literary, intellectual, and political culture.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Listen to the voices of ancient poets and thinkers with understanding and sensitivity.
- Use library and web-based resources independently to explore ancient and otherwise unfamiliar cultural data.
- Demonstrate an outline knowledge of the chronology and institutions of ancient Greek history.
- Read, understand, contextualise, and critically assess selected key sources for ancient Greek history.
Assessments
- Written Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- MICHAEL JAMES CLARKE:
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- MARGARET LOGAN:
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Reading List
- "The Odyssey - Homer" by Powell, Barry
ISBN: 9780199925889.
Publisher: OUP - "GODS, HEROES, AND MONSTERS : A SOURCEBOOK OF GREEK, ROMAN, AND NEAR EASTERN.; ED. BY CAROLINA LOPEZ-" by Lopez-Ruiz, Carolina
ISBN: 9780199797356.
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; Oxford University Press - "The birth of classical Europe" by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780713992427.
Publisher: Allen Lane 2010. - "Classical Greece and the birth of Western art" by Andrew Stewart
ISBN: 9780521618359.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2008. - "A Brief History of Greece. Politics, Society and Culture" by S. B. Pomeroy, S. M. Burstein, W. Donlan, J. Tolbert Roberts
ISBN: 9780199981564.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.